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NRS social grade

The NRS social grades are a system of demographic classification used in the United Kingdom. They were originally developed by the National Readership Survey (NRS) to classify readers, but have since been used by many other organisations for wider applications and have become a standard for market research. They were developed in the late 1950s and refined in following years and achieved widespread usage in 20th century Britain. Their definition is maintained by the Market Research Society.

Grades
The classifications are based on the occupation of the head of the household. Only around 2% of the UK population identifies as upper class, and this group is not separated by the classification scheme. The grading system is also sometimes used in the Republic of Ireland with the addition of a Class F signifying Farmers and Agricultural Workers. Examples The BBC's Man Alive in 1966 interviewed examples from various grades: • E - Widow; retired nanny • C2 - Machinist; butcher shop manager; tea lady; navvy on the Victoria Line • C1 - Public school schoolmaster; Army lieutenant, Royal Horse Artillery (will be class B as captain, A as lieutenant colonel) • AB - Church of England vicar (all clergy are class AB, regardless of income) • A - Film director == History ==
History
Since the creation of the system, the size of the white-collar groupings (ABC1) grew from 34% in 1968, to 55% of the population in 2016. Within this section, the professional and managerial groupings (A and B) doubled, from only 12% in 1968 to 27% in 2016. ==See also==
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